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AM1 river minelaying boats (1940-1941)


Ships


Names Builders Commissioned Losses Transfers Discarding

AM1 - 12

Balatoni Hajozasi, Balatonfüred: AM1-12

1940-1941: AM1 - 11

1947: AM3 (2nd time)

incomplete: AM12

AM2 (?), AM5(?), AM6(?)

none

surrendered 5.1945 and sold mercantile: AM1, 3, 4, 7 - 11

1960s: AM3 (2nd time)



Technical data


Displacement standard, t

?

Displacement full, t

20

Length, m

14.3

Breadth, m

3.70

Draught, m

0.60

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Mercedes-Lang diesels

Power, h. p.

150

Max speed, kts

11.6

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

1 x 1 - 8.3/83, 6 mines or mechanical minesweeping gear

Complement

3



Standard scale images


<i>AM1</i> 1940
AM1 1940


Project history

12 boats were ordered, but only 11 were completed. Small boats, capable to carry mines, minesweeping equipment and to be used as tugs. Dimensions supposed transportation by automobile transport.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

AM4, AM7, AM10, AM11 surrendered to American troops; AM8 and AM9 to Soviet troops 8.5.1945. AM3 in 1947 was again commissioned by Hungarian Danube flotilla, stricken in 1960s. AM1 after war was used mercantile, her hull was preserved till now.